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For Prolific Author Percival Everett, The Wilderness Is A Place Of Clarity

1:38pm October 07, 2015

by NPR Staff

Everett praises Wyoming, where many of his new stories are set, for being "so sparsely populated." And he says the outdoors aren't dangerous — human voices in the wilderness are far scarier.

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Culture Talks To Culture In 'Slaughterhouse 90210'

11:39am October 07, 2015

by Linda Holmes

Maris Kreizman's clever, slyly provocative book suggests that what we think of as art and what we think of as entertainment have much to say to each other.

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California's Growing Dunes In 'Gold Fame Citrus' Force Residents To Retreat

7:53am October 07, 2015

Steve Inskeep talks to author Claire Vaye Watkins about her new novel: Gold Fame Citrus. It's set in the American West of the not too distant future that has been completely transformed by drought.

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'Death By Water' Will Pull You Under

7:03am October 07, 2015

by Colin Dwyer

Kenzaburo Oe's new novel is a literary mystery in no rush for a solution. It follows an aging novelist, a stand-in for Oe himself, who returns home in search of clues to his father's drowning.

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Fan Fiction Comes To Life In 'Carry On'

6:43pm October 06, 2015

by Amal El-Mohtar

"Meta" isn't quite sufficient to describe Rainbow Rowell's latest, which brings a fictional Harry Potteresque series described in her previous novel Fangirl to warm, messy, beautiful life.

Acclaimed French chef Jacques Pepin (center) has had an extraordinary 60-year career. He says his new cookbook, Jacques Pepin: Heart and Soul in the Kitchen, will be his last. Maybe.

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What Would Julia Child Do? Jacques Pépin Says: Add More Butter

6:17pm October 06, 2015

by NPR Staff

In a conversation with NPR's Scott Simon, Jacques Pépin reflects on his extraordinary 60-year career, his dear friend Julia Child and how not to let good cheese leftovers go to waste.

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In 'Love And Techno,' The World Is Cruel — But The People Aren't (Mostly)

4:19pm October 06, 2015

by Jason Sheehan

Anthony Marra's new short story collection is a hundred-year relay of Russian history, full of black, bone-dry humor and characters who are often (but not always) as awful as the worlds they live in.

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Making The Case For Face To Face In An Era Of Digital Conversation

7:03pm October 05, 2015

by NPR Staff

Author Sherry Turkle is concerned that we are outsourcing too many of our conversations to screens and robots. "Face to face conversation is the most human and humanizing thing that we do," she says.

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The first draft of Kate DiCamillo's Because of Winn-Dixie.

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In Trove Of Kids' Book Treasures, A Glimpse Of The Work Behind The Magic

3:06pm October 05, 2015

by Alexandra Starr

Once a doctor's hobby, the Kerlan Collection is now one of the world's great collections of children's literature. Over 100,000 books offer visitors a chance to see the writer's process — for free.

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A Hidden — But Quietly Influential — Life In 'Rosemary'

2:38pm October 05, 2015

by NPR Staff

Rosemary was the lost Kennedy daughter; disabled from birth, she was left profoundly damaged after a lobotomy at the age of 23. But she had a lasting influence on her family's charitable projects.

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